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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2015
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Plano, TX (US);
Allen Samuels, San Jose, CA (US);
Warren Fritz Kruger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Linh Tien Truong, San Jose, CA (US);
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and/or devices are used to enable notification of a trigger condition to reduce declared capacity of a storage device. In one aspect, the method includes, at a storage device of a storage system, the storage device including non-volatile memory: (1) detecting a trigger condition for reducing declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, and (2) notifying a host to which the storage device is operatively coupled of the trigger condition for reducing declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, the trigger condition for enabling performance of an amelioration process to reduce declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes one or more flash memory devices.